Massive Faculty Donations and Institutional Conflicts of Interest

Abstract

committee-recommended sanctions of a dishonest professor: "[H]olding out the work of another as one's own… strikes at the very core of academic integrity...[T]he sanctions proposed...do not recognize the seriousness of this offense...[D]ismissal...is necessary to preserve the academic integrity of the institution and to restore public confidence." 3 A different response to academic wrongdoing was made by officials of the University of Washington (UW), where one of the authors, hereafter BK, and Professor Larry R. Dalton, hereafter LD, were chemistry department colleagues from 1998-2009. LD's first publication in 1967, in the journal Inorganica Chimica Acta, 4 contained words, pictures, and numerical data from the English language translation of a Russian paper published in 1965. 5 LD's paper was quickly retracted because "many of the experiments described were not actually performed." 6,i "ENP" is our abbreviation for this phrase, a euphemism used throughout in place of the words themselves repeated ad infinitum.